We uncovered a side to this actor we hadn't seen before~ These days not a week seems to go by when casting calls don't come pouring in... It's actor Park Yong-woo! His polished talent has managed to monopolize the love of audiences once again -

STAR FOCUS cameras caught up with Park Yong-woo right in time for the filming of his upcoming movie, . Park plays the part of a homicide detective, a character much different from his usual, more romantic and lighter roles. This time, there's a lot more action and a lot more "Mr. Tough Guy."

Park Yong-woo endured rigorous physical training for his part and rapidly dropped the weight to play the younger, lean cop. He also tanned his fair skin, giving himself a more rough image.

A lot of expectation is riding on the star, especially after his success as lead actor in last year's, .
The straightforward frankness and confidence of attracted flocks of the younger generation to theaters. The originality of the plot and well-structured composition helped set the stage for Park's acting finesse. This was his claim to fame, his release from "supporting roles."

Selected as one of the most highly anticipated actors of the year, Park Yong-woo! HIS secret lies in his unfaltering path through acting... Most would agree that his success - is well-deserved.

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[Guest Film Review] "Hand Phone"2017/02/25,
Despite being a 2009 film based on the concept of the mobile phone, when smart phones were not the rule yet, "Hand Phone" seems to be even timelier today, since people seem more attached than ever to their phones,...More

[Guest Film Review] "Ditto"2016/10/23,
Yoon So-eun is a student at Seoul university and is in love with a co-student, Dong-hee. In her efforts to approach him, she shows a fake interest to attend a lesson regarding wireless radios, ending with her, actually owning one. A few days later, she listens to someone trying to communicate and she decides to answer. On the other line of the wireless is another student of the same university, Ji In. The two of them start talking on a regular basis and they end up becoming friends. She talks to him about her love for Dong-hee and Kim Min-joo, her best friend, and he for a girl who does not leave him alone, Hyeon-ji,...More

[Guest Film Review] "Children..."2016/05/14,
The Actual Case
The film is based on an actual unsolved case that shocked the nation for over a decade, and regarded the disappearance of five kids, from 9 to 13 years old, in the Daegu Mountains in 1991.
The children (U Cheol-won, Jo Ho-yeon, Kim Yeong-gyu, Park Chan-in and Kim Jong-sik) were living in a village near Mt. Waryong and on the 26th of that year decided to head to the mountain to search for salamander eggs, following a path that begun in the back of their school. After failing to return for several hours, their worried parents called the police. The authorities though, were certain that it was a usual case of children getting away for a few days and then returning, and they did not proceed to a formal investigation, despite the parents' pleas,...More

[HanCinema's Film Review] "My Piano"2015/03/28,
Ji-soo (played by Uhm Jung-hwa) is an assertive ambitious woman who has recently come to accept the fact that she'll never be a world-renowned pianist. It's not her fault- Ji-soo has the talent, but inevitably her working class family ran out of the funds necessary to support this dream. So now Ji-soo has to accept a substitute fantasy- to simply be the piano teacher of a child who will later become a world-renowned pianist. But this aspiration, too, is hobbled by the fact that Ji-soo lacks access to young virtuosos. Also she doesn't particularly like children,...More

[HanCinema's Drama Review] "Life Tracker Lee Jae-goo" Episode 22015/02/22,
Now that the characters have been fully established "Life Tracker Lee Jae-goo" moves firmly into the category of investigative legal thriller. And for good reason- as Jae-goo himself notes, his own personal issues really don't matter here. What's more, even though Jae-goo's experiences have clearly changed the man for the better by the episode's end, it's still a long road to recovery. What was important for him to remember here is who the real enemy is- the big guys who bully the weak,...More

[HanCinema's Drama Review] "Life Tracker Lee Jae-goo" Episode 12015/02/21,
Jae-goo (played by Park Yong-woo) is a lawyer who's trying his best to ignore the fact that he's kind of a terrible person. The first we see of the man he's hassling the members of a funeral about their willingness to sue whatever amorphous entity they think may be responsible for the unfortunate death. The angry attack he receives in kind is unsurprising. Equally plausible is the fact that the next potential client he finds, while probably deserving of some sort of compensation, isn't exactly the most charming young woman,...More

[HanCinema's Film Review] "Late Spring"2014/12/13,
As the subtitle helpfully notes, "Late Spring" is the time of year when people try to convince themselves that it's not really summer yet. That's certainly true for Joon-goo (played by Park Yong-woo). The year is 1969, the dictatorship is in full swing, and Joon-goo, an artistic sculptor, appears to be losing his motor coordination abilities. The man simply doesn't have much to look forward to anymore. So his wife Jeong-sook (played by Kim Seo-hyung), attempts to lift his spirits by hiring young mother Min-kyeong (played by Lee Yoo-young) as a model,...More

Late Spring (2014)2014/11/21, Source, "Late Spring"
Genres: Drama and Romance
Running Time: 102 min.
Directed by: Jo Geun-hyeon
Starring: Park Yong-woo, Kim Seo-hyung, Lee Yoo-young
Synopsis: Joo-goo, a renowned sculptor, is diagnosed with a progressive disorder that will paralyze his body slowly. He gives up interests in the arts and just spends his days meaninglessly. His wife, Jeong-sook tries to find a nude model for him, hoping the model might inspire him to sculpt,...More

[HanCinema's Film News] New Korean Films Inbound...2014/11/15, K-Films Coming Soon: ★★★★ "Late Spring": A sculptor loses his zest for life after being diagnosed with a progressive disorder, but with the help of those around him he finds new meaning and purpose. (11/20) ★★★★ "He Who Loves the World": A documentary detailing reverend Son Yang-won (1902-1950, known as 'the Saint with the heart of Jesus') and his selfless caring of patients during the Korean War. (11/20) ★★★ "Mot": A group of teenagers celebrating their last winter vacation leaves one of them dead and the other missing, years later they reunite to discover the truth. (11/20) ★★★★ "Dad for Rent": A lazy, unemployed dad, supported by his wife, gets outed by his daughter when she puts him up for rent online. (11/20),...More

[HanCinema's Film Review + Video] "Once Upon a Time": A Rough Diamond Delight2014/11/01,
On 6 August 1945 Prince Wu (the last remaining member of Korea's imperial family) was horseback riding to work in Hiroshima when, 44.4 seconds after a perfectly planned 08:15 release, America's 'Little Boy' and its uranium payload cruelly crushed any hopes of a royal revival. "Once Upon a Time" (2008) is set around these landmark lessons from WWII, and follows a revolutionary swindler (Park Yong-woo as Bong-goo) and a jazzy cat burglar (Choon-ja played by Lee Bo-young) as they con and scratch over a mythical diamond: "The Light of the East", 300k of coal from Korea's proud Silla dynasty (57 BCE – 935 CE), and the slippery object of desire driving this entertaining and edgy heist flick,...More

"Late Spring" officially headed to Tokyo International Film Festival2014/09/16, Source,
The movie "Late Spring" has been invited to the Tokyo International Film Festival in the non-competitive World Focus division.
"Late Spring" was invited to the Santa Barbara International Film Festival in January in the World Premier International Competition and was also asked for appearance at the Arizona International Film Festival in April. In the May Milano Film Festival, it was nominated for Best Film, Best Actress and Best Cinematography,...More

[HanCinema's Film Review] "Blood Rain"2013/12/06,
There's a fair degree of medieval brutality in "Blood Rain". This is a movie in which we watch multiple people viciously murdered in about the most uncomfortable way possible. What really enhances the misery of these scenes is that they're just long enough that some slight thread of hope comes up that maybe, just maybe, this won't end as horribly as it looks. Of course, that's not how grisly death by torture works. Anyone who puts that much effort into a death trap is smart enough to build one that won't screw up.
What really enhances the discomfort in these scenes is that all the characters, whether they be the investigators, the criminals, or just the random townspeople, show themselves to be fully capable of this brutality without so much as flinching about the aftermath,...More

Now playing, films on multiculturalism2012/07/14, Source,
As of 2011, over 1.4 million non-Koreans have come to call Korea their home. On June 27, the fourth annual Multicultural Film Festival, organized since 2009 to spotlight the themes of multiculturalism and diversity that have emerged in Korean society in recent years, kicked off at CGV Daehangro. Sponsored by CJ CGV and Movie Collage, the first theater dedicated to indie films in Korea, the 15-day festival will screen 15 movies at CGV Guro and Incheon in addition to the Daehangro branch,...More

[HanCinema's Film Review] "Papa - Movie"2012/07/01, Film: "Papa - Movie"
Director:Han Ji-seung ("Venus and Mars" and "Alone in Love")
Stars: Park Yong-woo, Go Ara and Son Byung-hoReview Score: 6/10
Also try: "Hello Ghost"
I flagged this film as soon as I saw the film poster for it a few weeks before its release in Korea. It looked like such an unusual, as well as a highly unlikely film, that bravely nose dives into the, sometimes sticky, issue of multiculturalism in Korean culture. Han Ji-seung's efforts here, as something relatively new and rather bold, unfortunately did not translate into a remarkable performance at the local box office. The film received very little attention, and generally slipped under the radar in terms of admissions. A shame really, because although it's all a little to neat and tidy for my liking, the film itself offers a unique counter-narrative to mainstream Korean cinema as a light-hearted comedy that finds an uncanny middle ground between the Korean comedy genre films we all know and love, and this films irregular inclusion of suburban American culture,...More

Go Ara: 'Life Is Series of Challenges'2012/01/20, Source,
Actress Go Ara, who plays the female protagonist in the movies "Pacemaker" and "Papa - Movie", is only twenty two years old, but she has already appeared in nine dramas and movies up to now. She has grown up as a mature woman like the character who becomes attracted by internal beauty rather than outward appearance in the movie "Pacemaker" from a teenage girl who has her pulse quickened by a handsome boy in the drama "Sharp 1".,...More

K-celebrities now VCR 22012/01/19, Source,
We all have a bond that is unbreakable and unchangeable in our lives. And it's the bond of family.
[SOV] [Interview : ] "Let's get married".
That is, unless you're in THIS family.
[SOV] [Interview : ] "We just have to pretend you're a family! Without me, you would all be in an orphanage!",...More

Stars moving to general service channels, celebrity casting success2011/10/08, Source,
Founded ahead of the year's end, general service channels have been announcing star-studded casts one after another. Recruiting stars is the first stage of attracting attention to newly founded channels, which is a prerequisite for success. Because of this, expending resources to establish star-recruitment power is a natural move. First target: star broadcast TV producer General service channels' first targets were broadcast television entertainment producers. Given the enormous amount of know-how required to create a drama, this meant battling with broadcasters over a short period of time and securing the production talent that would give them the best chance for a successful launch,...More

[HanCinema's Film Review] Children...2011/03/05,
In 1991 five country boys ventured out into the mountains to catch salamanders and were never seen again. Their bodies were then discovered in 2004 but investigators were still unable to determine exactly why these young lives were prematurely taken. Now, in 2011, Lee Kyoo-man brings us "Children...", a crime thriller that is currently dominating at the top of the Korean box office.,...More

Missing 'Children..'. case turns into stilted drama2011/01/27, Source,
A scene from "Children...", which is based on a true, unsolved case of five boys who were found murdered. / Courtesy of Lotte Entertainment
By Lee Hyo-won
The difficulty of dramatizing true stories lies in harnessing the facts to creative ends, so that it doesn't stop short of mimicking documentaries,...More

Actors save lives on set of TV series "Jejoongwon"2010/01/06, Source, SBS TV series "Jejoongwon" is set during the latter era of the Joseon Dynasty -- a time period never before handled in a Korean drama. It also revolves around Jejoongwon which is the first hospital in South Korea's history to use Western medicine. These elements topped with the collaboration of its scenarist Lee Ki-won, writer of MBC's hit medical series "White Tower", and producer Hong Chang-wook, who garnered a strong fanbase through his SBS drama "The Scale of Providence", leaves little space for hasty presumptions. 10Asia visited the set of "Jejoongwon" a week ahead of its premiere to get a closer look and a better understanding of the medical-historical drama.
Actors Sean Richard and Park Yong-woo act out a scene for SBS TV series "Jejoongwon" on set at the broadcaster's studio in Ilsan, Gyeonggi Province of South Korea on December 30, 2009. [Chae Ki-won/10Asia]
A blond man sits at the door of a woman's room. He has an unidentifiable hose-like object stuck in one of his ears. A man sitting next to him says, "A tenth of 30 centimeters down from the neck, then another tenth of 30 centimeters to the left". That is when the woman sitting on the other side of the door starts moving. She places her hand, holding a stethoscope, to the chest of another woman whose jacket is undone. When the woman places the stethoscope to the other woman in accordance with the Korean man's directions, the blond man from the United States gives his diagnose of the patient's presumed illness. This sight where three people -- American and Korean, male and female -- cling to this single lady brought up in a good family, helps us predict what "Jejoongwon" will show its viewers. Such a scene is from times when a married woman from a good family would get beaten up by her husband for reading a book. Yoo Suk-ran (played by Han Hye-jin), who learns English and medicine, plays the friend of such a woman in the drama and will remark, "The King himself said discrimination no longer exists regarding status", although the world has yet to accept freedom of status. The same situation will apply to foreigner Allen (Sean Richard) who has come from the U.S. to spread Western medicine and Hwang Jung (Park Yong-woo) who learns medicine from Allen whilst concealing the he is actually of low status with his occupation as a butcher. That is how "Jejoongwon", through a single scene, portrayed the medicine, the time period and the way people live during such times.,...More

This year's lineup of dramas proved to be interesting. There were young, handsome characters attracting female fans ("Boys over Flowers", KBS), smart housewives took over households and offices (",...More

[PREVIEW] SBS TV series "Jejoongwon"2009/12/24, Source,
From left, SBS TV series "Jejoongwon" main cast Park Yong-woo, Han Hye-jin and Yeon Jeoung-hoon pose during a photo session of a press conference held at the SBS building in Seoul, South Korea on December 23, 2009. [SBS]
SBS Monday & Tuesday TV series "Jejungwon" Scenarist: Lee Ki-won Producer: Hong Chang-wook Cast: Park Yong-woo, Yeon Jung-hoon, Han Hye-jin, etc Premieres January 4, 2010 at 10 P.M.
It seems that SBS TV series "Jejoongwon" should lable itself more as a medical drama rather than a historical drama. And it is not just because its scenarist Lee Ki-won had written MBC's hit medical series "White Tower" or because the story revolves around Jejungwon, South Korea's first hospital which used Western medicine during the latter era of the Joseon Dynasty. A video containing a preview of "Jejoongwon" shown at a press conference held Wednesday, focused most of its story on medicine -- a life-long rivalry exists between Yeon Jung-hoon and Park Yong-woo, who play the role of doctors at Jejungwon in the drama, because of several surgical operations which split their fates while one's mother and the other's father are both in situations where they cannot receive proper medical treatment.,...More

[ChanMi's movie news] Korean version of movie "Phonebooth", "Cell Phone"2008/09/30, Source,
Movie star Uhm Tae-woong will be starring in the new movie "Cell Phone, " a Korean version of the Hollywood movie that starred Colin Farrell, "Phonebooth".
This movie will be released in theatres next year with Eom as Seung-min, an entertainment company director who cannot live a second without his cell phone.
This is the first Korean thriller movie that uses the cell phone as the cause of problems. It will be a similar genre as the movie "Phonebooth".,...More

Korean Celebrities on the Valentine's Day!2008/02/14, Source, [Host]
The Valentine's Day is coming in 3 days time. Every shop in the town is full of heart-shaped chocolate boxes and presents. At this time of the year, those who wish to confess their love become restless. The special edition of the Star News investigated how the celebrities would go about conf,...More

Korean films likely to dominate New Year holiday2008/02/06, Source, Data from several Korean ticket reservation sites strongly indicate hegemony for Korean films over the lunar new year holiday, one of the two major Korean holidays and traditionally a peak time for cinemas.

Retro movies rediscover colonial era2008/01/28, Source, Gyeongseong is emerging as a popular background for Korean films, reflecting the public's recent penchant for retro style, and filmmakers' newfound interest in the Japanese colonial period -- evidence of their quest for fresh characters and themes.

Week's New Movie Premieres2007/08/17, Source, Time to check on the week's new movies.
We have two Korean films, one's a comedy, and the other's a drama.
And foreign releases this week include a fantasy adventure and a true story about a San Francisco serial killer.
Here's Son Heekyung.
First up this week is the Korean comedy ",...More

Playing Monopoly With Park Yong-woo2007/01/06, Source, "I want to concentrate on playing Monopoly like a little child. I don't want to confine myself to one single image but want to evolve into an actor who can play a whole variety of characters". After a,...More

New Movie Releases for Dec. 152006/12/15, Source, Thanks for staying with us.
It is Friday, which is good news for those of you looking forward to the latest movies.
This week, we have two new Korean releases, one about the wonders or shortfalls of plastic surgery, and the other a murder suspense.
More from Son Heekyung.

PUSAN _ The 11th Pusan International Film Festival (PIFF) will finish tonight its nine-day festival. Thousands have enjoyed a range of films and avidly greeted the stars when they saw them walking on the red carpet or even bumped into them on the streets.

Fireworks light up the night sky during the opening ceremony of the 11th Pusan International Film Festival (PIFF) at the Yachting Center in Haeundae, southeastern port city of Pusan, Thursday. More than 6,000 festivalgoers and celebrities packed the venue. The nine,...More

Directed by British filmmaker Daniel Gordon, the 2004 documentary tells a story of two female North Korean gymnasts who dedicate themselves to the Mass Games. Gordon, the first foreigner to shoot a documentary in Pyon,...More

With his good looks and warm smile, Park Yong-woo is known for portraying the "good guys" in television dramas and films. But as an actor, Park says he finds himself often limited by this image and constantl,...More

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